use one's head



use one's head

Think, have common sense, as in Use your head, Martin. No one's coming out in this weather. This idiom uses head in the sense of "brain" or "intellect," a usage dating from the late 1300s.
See also: head, use

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
GershomGUR-shahm (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Viktorija-Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
GladysGLAD-is (English)Welsh, English
Hasim-Arabic
Pramod-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada
Euphrosyne-Greek Mythology